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chillamba

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Registered: 2008-11-21

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

so, after a guy wrote on my blog about compat wireless drivers, i decided to give 'em a try.
i had to recompile toofishes 2.6.27.8 putting as modules a bunch of things, before i could got them compiled. apart from that, everything smooth. wireless working, maybe even ighea's version of wlan.sh could work with those. i can unload and reload the ath5k of compat wireless without problems.

@chillamba: would you like to give those a try?
@toofishes: i'm not able to include those drivers in the kernel by myself, so what if i just mail you what i have here so you can see what's different from your last try with compat wireless?

ps. it might be an impression, but looks like rx power is higher now.

I'll wait for 2.6.28
Have no time to perform some experiments now

Last edited by chillamba (2008-12-15 13:20:04)

gazj

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

can anyone get higher than about 50fps in glx gears.  If you can post me your xorg.conf, and any other relevent details.

Thanks

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wLee

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From: Amsterdam, NL

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 33

Re: Arch on Eee PC

After something went wrong during installation,
I followed this advise to install another kernel through USB.
I've been trying 2.6.27.8-1 but I'm doing something wrong and don't know what.
I keep getting 'error: cannot open package file'
Can someone please tell me how to it right?

Edit: version 2.6.27.9-1 installed without a problem

Last edited by wLee (2008-12-21 18:41:20)

shrd

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Registered: 2008-01-23

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

modified ighea's wlan.sh (as someone asked):

#! /bin/sh

source /etc/acpi/eee.conf

PWR=$(cat /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan)

case $1 in
    poweron)
        if [ "$PWR" = "0" ]; then
            modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1
            sleep 1
            echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan
            sleep 2
            ifconfig wlan0 up
            # Loop to the eternity!!! bawwaawawa, well once should be enough. >)
            if ifconfig wlan0 > /dev/null
            then
                echo "Running network up command!"
                if [ -e /tmp/eeewlanfailcounter ]; then rm /tmp/eeewlanfailcounter;fi
                (sleep 1; $NETWORK_UP_COMMAND) &
            else
                FAILC=$(</tmp/eeewlanfailcounter) || FAILC=0
                echo "Current fail count is $FAILC"
                if [ $FAILC -gt 2 ];
                then
                    logger "Could not bring up WLAN."
                    echo "Could not bring up WLAN, sorry. See dmesg for more information!"
                    exit 1
                fi
                echo $(expr $FAILC + 1) > /tmp/eeewlanfailcounter
                /etc/acpi/wlan.sh poweroff
                /etc/acpi/wlan.sh poweron
            exit 1
            fi
        fi
        ;;


    poweroff)
        if [ "$PWR" = "1" ]; then
            logger "remove wlan interface"
            echo "Removing wlan interface and unloading modules"
            ifconfig wlan0 down
            sleep 1
            echo "Turning wlan device power off"
            echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan
            sleep 1
            rmmod pciehp
            echo "Running network down command"
            (sleep 1; $NETWORK_DOWN_COMMAND) &
         fi
        ;;
esac

thanks it is perfect now

Last edited by shrd (2008-12-21 03:07:40)

shrd

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Registered: 2008-01-23

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

can anyone get higher than about 50fps in glx gears.  If you can post me your xorg.conf, and any other relevent details.

Thanks

58 fps with last package xf86_video-intel and last kernel from toolfish

shrd

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 22

Re: Arch on Eee PC

after some use, I have some problem with wifi very slow (wpa2)
ath5k is buggy i think

nirvanix

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From: Saskatoon

Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 193

Re: Arch on Eee PC

can anyone get higher than about 50fps in glx gears.  If you can post me your xorg.conf, and any other relevent details.

Thanks

58 fps with last package xf86_video-intel and last kernel from toolfish

I'm getting 285 with same driver and kernel

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shrd

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 22

Re: Arch on Eee PC

I'm getting 285 with same driver and kernel

can you copy paste your xorg.conf?
my xorg.conf is the same as : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … sus_EEE_PC
and i have this message with glxgears : "failed ton initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic" may be the problem

=> update : after pacman -Syu : 290 to 296 fps and no error message on glxgears
intel-dri was updated and other things
nice

Last edited by shrd (2008-12-24 18:43:35)

fantomas

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

after last update intel-dri package it takes about 300 fps, but I remember 700 fps with intel_batch trick, I'll wait for better update

nirvanix

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From: Saskatoon

Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 193

Re: Arch on Eee PC

I've had Arch on my 701 Eee pc for two days and loving it. Don't have to deal with Asus' lousy software support anymore. And dpkg - talk about a cart with a broken wheel!

Thanks to toofishes and ighea for their customizations!

Last edited by nirvanix (2008-12-25 18:03:47)

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puelocesar

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 16

Re: Arch on Eee PC

How do you overclock the EeePC with this new 2.6.27eee kernel? The package eeepc-linux seems to be removed and I couldn't compile it from myself, any tips?

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

An update for everyone- I have a 2.6.28 build that I'm testing out now. I'm probably going to wait to push it until the wireless regulatory domain stuff comes out of testing that Thomas (brain0) put in there today. Everything seems to be running smoothly and there is even a way to turn the wifi radio off now without even needing acpid.

kant1

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Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 57

Re: Arch on Eee PC

If the right side of your trackpad still works for scrolling after the latest X.org update, would you mind posting your relevant xorg.conf settings and anything else of assistance?  Thanks!

toofishes

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Registered: 2006-06-06

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

If the right side of your trackpad still works for scrolling after the latest X.org update, would you mind posting your relevant xorg.conf settings and anything else of assistance?  Thanks!

My xorg.conf has shrunk considerably since the upgrade since I now let hotplugging do all of my input devices for me. In addition, you don't need a lot of the other sections (e.g. Monitor):

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Server0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "BlankTime" "5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "intel"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
    Option      "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    DefaultDepth  24
    # Add a Virtual section to each Display so we can later plug in an
    # external monitor and have it be larger than 800x480. 1920x1080 was
    # chosen because that is the biggest resolution I will ever use.
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport  0 0
        Depth     24
        Virtual   1920 1080
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

With the switch to hotplugging comes the other relevant addition, this is my configuration for /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi (copied and modified from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
      <match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="AlpsPS/2 ALPS">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="appletouch">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="bcm5974">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Yes, the Eee touchpad supports two-finger scrolling so you can quiet the Macbook fans!

Cagnulein

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From: Modena, Italy

Registered: 2006-04-03

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

put these confs into the wiki would be a good idea, isn't it?

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punkeroso

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2007-01-19

Posts: 105

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Yes, the Eee touchpad supports two-finger scrolling so you can quiet the Macbook fans!

As far as I know, there's no way to make two-finger scrolling work on eee 701.
I tried your config files and it isn't working.

Regards

monshin

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Registered: 2008-01-14

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Two-finger scrolling works here with toofishes config files.

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

Yes, the Eee touchpad supports two-finger scrolling so you can quiet the Macbook fans!

As far as I know, there's no way to make two-finger scrolling work on eee 701.
I tried your config files and it isn't working.

Regards

I guess it must be the cosmic rays hitting my machine that make it work when I use two fingers then.

@Cagnulein: Feel free to. It's everyone's wiki to edit. I just didn't want to get bogged down editing the whole article because I find it much too long and confusing, and I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

punkeroso

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2007-01-19

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

I guess it must be the cosmic rays hitting my machine that make it work when I use two fingers then.

LOL...
Using synclient -m 100 and touching the touchpad with more than 1 finger I only get "1" under the "f" field.
I'm going crazy trying to understand why you get the two-finger scrolling and I don't...

EDIT: I've searched on the web and found other 701 which can't enable the two-fingers features...this seems something hardware related.

Last edited by punkeroso (2009-01-01 18:37:32)

Wittfella

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 462

Re: Arch on Eee PC

An update for everyone- I have a 2.6.28 build that I'm testing out now. I'm probably going to wait to push it until the wireless regulatory domain stuff comes out of testing that Thomas (brain0) put in there today. Everything seems to be running smoothly and there is even a way to turn the wifi radio off now without even needing acpid.

Hey toofishes,

I also read about this somewhere else, in that the Fn-F2 should be fixed in 2.6.28, and that it no longer just creates and acpi event that you have to script an action, but is handled properly internally.

I just enabled [Testing] on my 900ah and fired up 2.6.28-2 and I notice that the wifi LED came back on (I had it off as I am using wired most of the time now and I had never implemented the acpi on/off script).  So I hit fn-F2 to see if it toggles but no go, nothing happens.  Checked the logs, its still producing unhandled acpi key events.

You say it works for you?  Am I right in thinking that it should no longer be an acpi event?  I think I remember seeing something about the rfkill module, which I see is loaded in lsmod.

On a side note, 2.6.28 went well except the touchpad no longer taps/scrolls.  I see a bunch of other posts about this and looks like you have to hack on hal/fdi......sigh......it worked fine with 2.6.27 and I have never touched xorg/synaptics/hal/fdi.  Something to do with the new elantech stuff I guess, but I don't understand why this stuff gets harder

Cheers,
Wittfella

Last edited by Wittfella (2009-01-05 11:01:57)

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

An update for everyone- I have a 2.6.28 build that I'm testing out now. I'm probably going to wait to push it until the wireless regulatory domain stuff comes out of testing that Thomas (brain0) put in there today. Everything seems to be running smoothly and there is even a way to turn the wifi radio off now without even needing acpid.

Hey toofishes,

I also read about this somewhere else, in that the Fn-F2 should be fixed in 2.6.28, and that it no longer just creates and acpi event that you have to script an action, but is handled properly internally.

I just enabled [Testing] on my 900ah and fired up 2.6.28-2 and I notice that the wifi LED came back on (I had it off as I am using wired most of the time now and I had never implemented the acpi on/off script).  So I hit fn-F2 to see if it toggles but no go, nothing happens.  Checked the logs, its still producing unhandled acpi key events.

modprobe rfkill-input

You say it works for you?  Am I right in thinking that it should no longer be an acpi event?  I think I remember seeing something about the rfkill module, which I see is loaded in lsmod.

On a side note, 2.6.28 went well except the touchpad no longer taps/scrolls.  I see a bunch of other posts about this and looks like you have to hack on hal/fdi......sigh......it worked fine with 2.6.27 and I have never touched xorg/synaptics/hal/fdi.  Something to do with the new elantech stuff I guess, but I don't understand why this stuff gets harder

Everything has been working fine here- 2.6.28 made 0 difference with my touchpad. I'm really not sure what you mean by "hack" as everything needs configuration at some point, and I posted a working config above (at least for the 701), but Arch changes- you sometimes have to keep up.

Wittfella

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 462

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Everything has been working fine here- 2.6.28 made 0 difference with my touchpad. I'm really not sure what you mean by "hack" as everything needs configuration at some point, and I posted a working config above (at least for the 701), but Arch changes- you sometimes have to keep up.

Thats weird!  What I mean is that I did absolutely nothing in 2.6.27 and the touchpad worked as expected.  I have no xorg.conf, I have never installed synaptics, and have never even looked in the hal fdi settings...and it worked great!

I just rolled back to 2.6.27 to check out what was different and I see in the X log that the inputdevice is detected as a 'ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" (type: MOUSE)'.  Strange I guess, but hey it works!  With 2.6.28 it detects the 'Elantech Touchpad'.

All the other posts and fixes I have seen regarding the touchpad involve synaptics. I don't understand why if it didn't need it before.  Is it to do with the new elantech code? ie. you have to use synaptics now.

[EDIT] - I found some answers to my own questions which may be helpful

Yes you have to use synaptics with the new elantech driver, from here http://arjan.opmeer.net/elantech/

Some other very useful info I found about why it worked in 2.6.27 here:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowT … chTouchpad
http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-13951.html

Thanks for the rfkill info, I'll give it a go.

Cheers,
Wittfella

Last edited by Wittfella (2009-01-06 02:32:25)

fusca

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: Arch on Eee PC

Hi people,

After a classic "pacman -Syu", I got problems with Fcn+F2!!
My environment:
* Asus EEE 8G | 1G RAM | 502 BIOS;
* Arch linux 2.6.27.10-1 kernel with original Asus ACPI code, compiled with last version of GCC and 2.6.27.10-1 kernel;
* KDE 4.1.3
* Updated xorg.conf and 11-x11-synaptics.fdi (like toofishes' files at page 49);

What can I do to solve this issue?
How can I configure my .conf (e.g. rc.conf) files?

Thanks,
Fusca

megakilo

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Registered: 2008-04-02

Posts: 8

Re: Arch on Eee PC

I am using toofishes kernel 2.6.28 for Eee 701.
But I have trouble with the camera.
Skype or other software can not find the camera.
I enabled camera in BIOS and set the OS to "Finished".
There is no /proc/acpi/asus/camera stuff in the system.

What did I miss?

update: sudo mplayer -fps 15 tv:// can start the camera. But no Skype.

Last edited by megakilo (2009-01-17 03:13:34)

faelar

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From: Amiens (FR)

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 232

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Re: Arch on Eee PC

There was nobody online so I only tested the webcam in skype options, and it works.
local/skype 2.0.0.72-2
    P2P software for high-quality voice communication
local/kernel-eee 2.6.28-1 (eee)
    The Linux Kernel and modules for the Asus Eee PC 701

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